POPULAR EDUCATOR FOR 1919-1920 You CANNOT Afford NOT to Continue Your Subscription Announcement of Special Features for the year PROFESSIONAL SALARIES The coming year is one of great doubt and uncertainty in almost every direction. Will the schools go on as they are now constituted, each town taking the same course and determining the wages and character of its teachers, or will the schools be gradually federalized, and the teachers receive professional salaries? ENGLISH LANGUAGE The schools, however constituted, have a great and allimportant task before them to combat the insidious evil of Bolshevism by teaching the principles of good citizenship in season and out of season, as they never have been taught before, and by giving every child a good working command of the English language. To do this it may be necessary to simplify the course of study or reorganize the schools. These two subjects are allimportant for the coming year and POPULAR EDUCATOR will devote itself to helping teachers in the task by every means in its power. CIVICS LESSONS Miss Leighton will continue her civics lessons. Some of the results of the work done in the experiment stations maintained by the National Security League will be embodied in these lessons, as well as methods tried successfully during the past year in various schools throughout the country. Miss Leighton has been asked to help revise the New York State Civics Syllabus, and she will be in a position to give teachers the very best possible advice. SCHOOL HYGIENE ILLITERACY The extent of illiteracy in this country, revealed by the draft, has surprised and alarmed us all. In POPULAR EDUCATOR there will be a department every month devoted to all sorts of plans for making the English As part of the work in teaching citizenship there should be a real health crusade. PoPULAR EDUCATOR will publish a series of articles on Rural School Hygiene, prepared by a man of large experience who knows what he is talking about. ART APPRECIATION teaching more effective in all grades, and the more freely all our readers contribute to this department the better we shall be pleased. There will also be suggestions for making the teaching of History a better influence than it has evidently proved in the past. GEOGRAPHY A Department of Geography for Elementary Teachers will be conducted by W. Jerrold O'Neil, Chairman of the Geography Committee of Stamford, Conn., and Principal of the Waterside School. It will be based on the highly original and successful methods which have already made the geography work as carried out in the Stamford schools famous. BIRD STUDIES ) POPULAR EDUCATOR will continue the Parent-Teacher Club and will have several features of special interest to rural teachers. Among these are some bird studies, with most interesting illustrations from photographs by the author; a series by Mr. Miller in starting and caring for a young orchard, and some practical lessons in hand-work for country boys. SCHOOL MANAGEMENT A grammar school principal of experience has prepared a series of articles on School Management full of practical advice for the young teacher. Mr. Newell, Supervisor of Art in Springfield, Mass., will contribute a study in Art Appreciation each month, with a full-page illustration. Is not ANY ONE of the Special Features for this year RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PROMPTLY POPULAR EDUCATOR COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO The Perry Pictures Our New 1919 Catalogue is Ready It contains 1600 miniature illustrations,tiny pictures that are helpful in selecting the subjects you want. It contains a Boston Edition picture, a New York Edition picture, a bird picture in natural colors, four Small Size pictures, and, for the present, a Ten Cent Size picture on paper 9x12. The Catalogue also contains 54 PICTURES for which, if we sold them The First Houses in Plymouth The Perry Pictures Company DIXON FOR A DIME [Please do THE LONG CONTINUED USE OF THE DIXON SCHOOL LINE 7x9. Two Bird Pictures in Natural Promise yourself that your girls and boys shall know something of the WORLD'S GREATEST PICTURES Use them in teaching language, geography, literature, history, and especially in picture study. Box 2, Malden, Massachusetts In Preparation !!! MANUAL ARTS PROBLEMS FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES By EDWARD F. WORST 2 Supervisor of Elementary Manual Training and Construction Work A complete teachers' manual for beginners' classes. It includes work in Coping Saw Work in Light Wood, Bookbinding, and Folio Making, Clay Modeling, Cement and Magnesite Work, Basketry and Raffia Weaving. Four chief lines of work offered in the middle grades of the elementary schools are taken up in the latest and most important of Mr. Worst's books. The fundamental processes are fully described and splendidly illustrated and a wealth of practical problems is added. All of the material has been tried out in Chicago and elsewhere, so that the book has not only the authority of Mr. Worst's research and practice as a teacher and supervisor, but also the results of the practical experience of a great number of teachers working under widely different conditions. |